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Darke County Genealogical Society
Barnbuilders:
Architectural Legacy author to speak in May
The Darke County Genealogical Society will host Tom O’Grady with his
presentation, The Barnbuilders: An Architectural Legacy in Ohio’s Rural
Landscape, on Sunday, May 7, 2017 at 2:00 p.m. at Garst Museum in
Greenville, OH. This program is made possible in part by The Ohio
Humanities Council, a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the
Humanities.
Tom O’Grady sailed as a deck hand on an ore carrier on the Great Lakes
abroad a sister-ship of the ill-fated Edmund Fitzgerald, surveyed for
the Ohio Department of Natural Resources, launched the first
comprehensive curbside recycling program in the state of Ohio, and has
been promoting waste reduction and sustainable economy for thirty
years. He has spent a good deal of the past twenty-five years as a
student of Ohio history, researching its geography and settlement, the
mound builders, Ohio canals, and several of its interesting characters
and their stories. Tom has been teaching astronomy at Ohio
University for 32 years.
Tom’s presentation will explain how culture groups migrating from New
England, Middle Atlantic states, and from the South, settled in various
regions of Ohio, and their distinct farms and barns can be observed
when travelling throughout the state. The barnbuilders have an
architectural legacy throughout rural Ohio that can help understand
much about the heritage of the region. The geographic
distribution of the various barn types is due to routes followed into
the state, geographical influences, or cultural affinities. One
can identify regions settled by people of Pennsylvania German descent,
those settled by migrants from the upland south, or those migrating to
Ohio from New England, by the type of barns and other building on
farmsteads remaining on Ohio byways. These artifacts of timber
frame construction, house the remnants of Ohio’s primeval forests.
This presentation is free and open to the public and will be followed
by refreshments and the regular meeting of the Darke County
Genealogical Society. For more information call (937) 692-6511.
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